Visual artist and curator Raihan Rajiv Vadra, son of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and businessman Robert Vadra, said Wednesday that he was told by authorities to “remove/replace 74 out of 105” photographs, many of them related to the recent protests by students and youth in New Delhi , hours before his exhibition No Idea Is Final was due to open at Bikaner House in the Capital.

By evening, barely 35 exhibits remained, and authorities also objected to the blank frames that had replaced the photographs taken down.

“As a citizen and an artist, for me it was my duty to take and display these images,” Raihan said. “Any restrictions on art in my opinion are wrong and futile.…